The Ventura County Star Editorial Board is withdrawing its endorsement of Carla Castilla for Third District county supervisor.

Since our original endorsement was published Sept. 18, the Ventura County District Attorney's Office completed an investigation that concluded she had been living at a Camarillo address while continuing to vote from the Oxnard address where her parents live. The Oxnard address is in the Fifth District, while the Camarillo address is in the Third District. In a Sept. 29 editorial, The Star called the revelation disturbing and asked Castilla to provide voters of the Third District with a clear statement on the issue.

After that editorial, she requested a meeting with the Editorial Board and attended with three advisers. Castilla offered us the opportunity to read a letter her attorney sent to the district attorney, but only on "background," which meant we could not share any of it with readers. We declined.

Castilla explained that after her marriage in August 2008, she continued to live in her parents' home as well as the home her husband owned in Camarillo. She said it was cultural that Latina women remain in the family home as well as live in the spouse's home. She said she learned that both addresses were being considered a legal address only when she received two jury summons in 2015 and, upon questioning, found that one was sent based on the address in her voter records and the other based on the address on her driver's license. That was when she changed her address to Camarillo for both, she said.

Let us review the facts from the district attorney's letter to Castilla's attorney and from the independent reporting done by The Star:

In August 1995, she registered to vote at her residence in Oxnard.

In May 2009, nine months after her marriage, she re-registered to vote and listed the Oxnard address as her "current residence address," rather than her husband's address in Camarillo.

In July 2010, she listed the Camarillo address as her mailing address when renewing her driver's license but did not fill out the section on the form that would allow her to change her voting address.

In October 2012, she was listed as a joint tenant with her husband when the Camarillo home was refinanced.

In the 2014 tax year, Castilla and her husband began receiving the California homeowner's tax exemption on the Camarillo home, which requires that recipients live in the property as their principal place of residence.

On May 21, 2015, Supervisor Kathy Long announced her retirement from the Board of Supervisors.

On June 17, 2015, Castilla's voter registration address was changed to Camarillo.

On Aug. 13, 2015, she announced her candidacy for the Board of Supervisors in Long's Third District.

Between August 2008 and June 2015, she voted in eight elections in Oxnard.

When Castilla appeared before the Editorial Board for her initial interview, she opened by stating she was running for office to restore public trust, and that accountability and transparency would be hallmarks of her service.

We do not believe Castilla has met those standards. In her later discussion with the Editorial Board, she did not believe there was anything wrong with her voting from her parents' home while, as the D.A. concluded, Camarillo was her principal home. That, we must assume, is why she has opted to not discuss the issue with voters, except when it is raised at candidate forums.

Based on the known facts, we cannot help but speculate that Castilla, who has worked in politics for 16 years for Rep. Lois Capps and state Sen. Hannah-Beth Jackson, was interested in a political career and recognized her roots in Oxnard provided a stronger base for a political run than Camarillo, until the seat opened up in Camarillo.

Based on the explanation Castilla provided the Editorial Board, the reason she changed her voter registration was because of the confusion over dual jury summons. Then, logically, if she had not received the second jury summons, she would not have re-registered to the Camarillo address. And had she not re-registered, she could not have run for Third District supervisor because she would not live in the district. That defies political logic.

By declining to release to voters all the information, she has chosen to not be transparent or accountable. By deciding she did nothing wrong, she has chosen to not take responsibility for what we believe was a clear violation of the law, even if there was no intent to defraud.

The Star withdraws its endorsement of Castilla and chooses to not make an endorsement in the Third District race.